Stevie Richards isn’t buying Ric Flair’s attempt to move past his latest controversy concerning his son David Flair.
After Flair publicly called out David Flair over the “Flair” name, deleted posts, and later said he was focusing on his health, Richards reacted on his YouTube channel and accused the WWE Hall of Famer of starting drama before trying to make himself look sympathetic: “He starts it and then he tries to make himself to be the bigger man every time.”
Richards said this was not an isolated situation, arguing that Flair has a long-running pattern of taking public shots, walking things back, and then trying to control the final version of the story. To Richards, Flair’s deleted posts and later health explanation fit the same cycle he believes has been happening for years.
“It’s the weird thing of like he starts it and then he tries to babyface himself at the end. So therefore he gets the last word or somebody has told him to do that but then he still gets the last word and he still seems like the babyface and it’s this constant pattern. It’s been going for years.”
Flair had previously apologized for his frustration and said he was taking time to focus on his health after the David Flair posts drew backlash. Richards acknowledged the health update, but questioned why it was brought into a situation that started with Flair publicly threatening action over the family name: “What did that have to do with suing your son for the Flair trademark?”
Richards added that people can sympathize with Flair’s health issues without ignoring how the situation started. He argued that Flair’s apology still shifted attention back to himself instead of addressing the impact of the public comments about David.
“Everybody has somebody in a family or somebody they love and care about that’s having some kind of health issue. So our heart goes out to you, but your heart never really goes out to anybody else, does it? It goes back to you.”
Richards then summed up what he believes is Flair’s larger pattern: taking a shot, changing the tone, and then trying to land as the good guy, peacemaker, or victim once the backlash starts. In this case, Richards said Flair used his health issues as part of that shift.
“And then Flair in the end and each everyone tries to either play the good guy, the peacemaker, the victim, or in this case now all of a sudden you have health issues.”
Flair recently tried to lighten the mood by posting with Kid Rock and joking that at least Kid Rock still likes him, but Richards clearly isn’t letting the David Flair controversy slide. His main point is that Flair started the issue publicly, then tried to soften the fallout once the reaction turned against him.
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